I actually think it was not goal tending - it didn't look like the ball had a chance to go in the basket or hit the rim, to me, and when he touched it, the ball was below the rim, I thought. But I could be wrong. It didn't affect the outcome, one bit.

My only regret from that play is that the assistant coach grabbed Amaker before he punched the ref. Then Billy "Boat" Martin would've had to fire him.

We lost that game when we took the court. The refs were only bit players in the sad drama. I've never seen a more uninspired group of seniors and juniors playing for a title. Dukie Amaker sure is doing a heckuva job bringing in guys with heart and motivating them to overachieve. Ha.

These chumps played like it was an exhibition game in October against Athletes in Action. Good riddance to Horton, Hunter, Abram, and Brown. Only wish Bill "not Ed" Martin and Tommy "not Coach K" Amaker would join them.

First of all, to complain about the refs in college basketball is like complaining about snow in the Midwest in January. There are no worse officials in sports. But they had no impact on the outcome last night. Michigan was horrible.Wangs, not all the guys you listed will be gone next year. Lester Abram got a redshirt last year and will be back to be healthy for about 10 games next year.

I thought it was embarrassing that we were playing in the NIT final for the 2nd time in 3 years. Then I found out South Carolina was the defending Champion. That's atrocious. If you win the NIT, and then are good enough the next year to win it again, you've squandered your talent horrifically during the regular season.

This tasty tidbit came to us from “The Daily”, right there in Ann Arbor. Ya really gotta feel some pangs for those folks, don’t ya?

Michigan's sports programs inferior to Ohio State's

To the Daily: Now that Ohio State has surpassed Michigan in nearly every major sport, what is Bill Martin going to do to change it?

Lloyd Carr, the worst game coach in the Big Ten, has single-handedly driven the Michigan football program into the ground in recent years. I do not even want to hear about how much of a classy guy he is. He is a great person but a terrible football coach. When are we going to stop losing on the quarterback draw, eh coach? It goes without mentioning that OSU has dominated us in football.

Tommy Amaker, despite all of the injuries to the basketball team, did a horrific job of getting his team ready to play for last nine games of the season. Good finish, coach! OSU has us dominated in this regard, and the future looks grim for Michigan with OSU's incredible recruiting class next year.

The hockey team is having a rough year, and split with a terrible OSU team. Michigan has looked outmatched by nearly each member of the WCHA and east coast opponents it has faced in the NCAA tournament in recent years. As a four-year season ticket holder, I saw first-hand losses to Boston College, Minnesota (many times) and Colorado College (huge collapse). We were clearly outclassed in these games.

OSU's baseball program is in much better standing than Michigan's. Let's not even talk about our women's basketball team, but OSU's is one of the best in the nation.

People can tell me that I am just whining, but I know that I am not alone in getting fed up with Michigan's continuing mediocrity in every sport. Ohio State has it figured out, and as a lifelong Michigan

South Carolina brought its infamous mascot, Plucky the Chicken, to the N.I.T.?!?!? Now, that (like everything else about South Carolina) is just sad!

If the Wolverines didn't play well, don't be too hard on them. It's hard to criticize a guy for not being motivated for the N.I.T. championship game. It is, after all, the N.I.T. championship game.

The King is right . . . winning back-to-back N.I.T. titles is the surest sign of being an underachiever.

Matt is also right . . . now that 65 teams are in the N.C.A.A. tournament, the loser of the N.I.T. championship game is No. 67. Assuming, of course, that the top 65 teams in the country make it into the Big Dance field . . . which, naturally, no one assumes, because it isn't true, but that's neither here nor there.

20+ years ago, legendary Southern Humorist/columnist Lewis Grizzard had a great column in the Atlanta Journal that was syndicated in 200+ other papers across the South.

He was a HUGE, HUGE UGA fan. After UGA lost to Georgia Tech for the first time in 10+ years at home, he ran a column that said...."I don't want to talk about it." With the rest of the article printed as blank text.

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